Most Lu Xun scholars... Simply cannot jettison the traditional baggage of 'LuXunography' which over the years has grown stale. Thus Madmen and Other Survivors comes like a whiff of fresh air. It will certainly be a challenge, and I for one would like to use it in my courses and recommend it to other scholars and students. -- Leo Ou-fan Lee

Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction attempts to put the short stories of this outstanding Chinese writer - whose work is central to understanding the May Fourth movement in China - into a broad context of Modernism.
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Puts the short stories written between 1918 and 1926 into a context of Modernism. This book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism.
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Product details

ISBN
9789622098244
Published
2007-02-01
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press; Hong Kong University Press
Weight
344 gr
Height
235 mm
Width
154 mm
Thickness
14 mm
Age
G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
136

Biographical note

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at Manchester University, and before that, Professor of Comparative Literature in the University of Hong Kong. He is author of several books and articles on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and cultural texts, including Becoming Posthumous (2001), Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together (Hong Kong University Press 2002), and Lost in the American City: Dickens, James, Kafka (2001) and Blake's Night Thoughts (2004).